Filled Pause Use in Autistic Adults and Their First-Degree Relatives: Gender Differences and Within-Family Associations.
Purpose: Prior research indicates that filled pauses (e.g., um and uh) are a marker of pragmatic language. Although pragmatic language features run in families of autistic individuals, it is not clear whether variation in filled pause production of autistic adults is also familial. It is also possib...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 11; pp. 5399 - 5414 |
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